Ibotenate lesions of the hippocampus impair spatial learning but not contextual fear conditioning in mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-87

  Cho, Yoon H ^a   Friedman, Eugenia ^a   Silva, Alcino J ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Ibotenate lesions; Transgenic mice; Water maze

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEAR; GENE TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0010237809     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00054-0     Document Type: Article

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